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sweatmeat

sweatmeat is the obsolete form of sweetmeat.

Meaning of sweetmeat

Noun

sweetmeat (plural sweetmeats)

  1. A sweet delicacy; a confection.
    • At the principal stations there are also separate Hindu and Mohemmedan refreshment rooms, and some mail trains have compartments reserved for Indian tea and sweetmeat vendors.1950 February, W. Dendy, “Impressions of the Indian Railways—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 119
  2. (informal) Sweetheart; darling.
    • “Hey, sweetmeat, where you been?” Farrengalli hollered.2010, Scott Nicholson, The Gorge

Forms of sweatmeat

pluralsweatmeats

Origin of sweatmeat

From sweat (“sugary”) + meat (“solid food”).

Questions about sweatmeat

What is sweatmeat the obsolete form of?
Sweatmeat is the obsolete form of sweetmeat.

Words near sweatmeat in the dictionary

  1. sweatlodges
  2. sweatlord
  3. sweatlords
  4. Sweatman
  5. Sweatmans
  6. sweatmeat
  7. sweatmeats
  8. sweatpant
  9. sweatpanted
  10. sweatpants
  11. sweatproof

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sweatmeat (page history and authors); sweetmeat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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